Matt Damon My Funny Valentine

My Funny Valentine is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms. It is now considered a jazz standard, appearing on over 1300 albums performed by over 600 artists. Babes in Arms opened at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway, in New York, New York on April 14, 1937 and ran for 289 performances. In the original play, a character named Billie Smith (played by Mitzi Green) sings the song to Valentine Val LaMar (played by Ray Heatherton). The song reemerged in the 1950s and was performed by most of the great jazz musicians and popular vocalists of the time including: Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, Paul Desmond, Tony Bennett, Ben Webster, Buddy Rich, Anita O Day, Mel Tormé, Sammy Davis, Jr. , and many others. also performed in many movies. one of: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) performed by Matt Damon